The Spring Semester

FlatlineUTDFlatlineUTD Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7695Members
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I'm probably going to be absent from the board a lot starting really soon. I'm taking 18 hours this semester, and it doesn't look like I'm going to have nearly as much free time as I did in the fall. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->

I'm taking History II, Applied Calculus II, Oceanography (for science <b>elective</b> - I don't need real courses as a business major. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> Hell, I'm taking Dinosaurs in the fall. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->), Government I, Computer Science II, and Business and Public Law. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

I'll still be around and all, but not nearly as much as I have been. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • DezmodiumDezmodium Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1575Members
    edited January 2003
    good for you man... i wish i could dedicate myself that much. i hope you get good prefessors. (i whine about 6 credit hours at a time)
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    wtf is a credit hour anyways ?

    All I know is that I've got 26 hours of class time per week :/
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  • DezmodiumDezmodium Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1575Members
    the way it works at my college is that when i complete a class i get three credit hours for most 4 for others. its the same thing as a credit i suppose. must be how my college labels them.
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    Usually cause you spend 3 hours in that class a week.

    If you are taking 26 credit hours in college that means you are taking 8 or 9 classes. And you're insane.
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  • SaltySalty Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 6970Members
    i think that 26 credit hours are highschool witch include rigourous classes such as gym ceramics and lunch.

    18 hrs... owch man.
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  • InjuryInjury Mahou Shoujo Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 7992Banned
    I'm hauling 12 units this quarter, there's no way I'm taking another class, even a cheesy elective such as Art Appreciation..
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  • FlatlineUTDFlatlineUTD Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7695Members
    Well, the way I figure it, my Oceanography class is self-paced - which means I don't have to attend any classes. I take the unit tests whenever I feel like it. I can easily knock that class out in about 3-4 weeks, which leaves me with 15 hours (a pretty reasonable load) for the rest of the semester.

    Fortunately, I don't have to write reports in *any* of my classes. Law, government, and history, which are all heavy-reading, would have been awful if I had to write papers for them too.
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  • Anime_Tentacle_MonsterAnime_Tentacle_Monster Join Date: 2003-01-06 Member: 11931Members
    Theater classes make for an interesting Major and semester

    sounds easy till it dawns on you that you also have to help create the plays we put on

    I have 16 hours without working on plays which adds around 3 to 6 more a week

    I dont care really gives me something to do and gets me out of this god forsaken room <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    edited January 2003
    <!--QuoteBegin--Salty+Jan 16 2003, 02:27 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Salty @ Jan 16 2003, 02:27 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->i think that 26 credit hours are highschool witch include rigourous classes such as gym ceramics and lunch.

    18 hrs... owch man.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    nope.

    I've got:

    cs250 - 2 90minute sessions/wk - "Computer Graphics 2" , learning the fastest/best ways to do 3 dimensional polygon clipping and stuff

    cs260 - 2 90minute sessions/wk - "Computer Networking" , learning how networks are laid out and (eventually) learning network programming techniques.

    cs270 - 2 90minute sessions/wk - "Advanced C++" , which I'm still not quite sure about, I think we're learning everything there is to know about classes/structures (this seems redundant to me since we already covered polymorphism and inheritance in cs170)

    cs280 - 2 90minute sessions/wk - "Algorithm Analysis" , which I'm also not quite sure about, apparently we're just going to cover what works and what doesnt for processing large amounts of data.

    phy250 - 2 90minute sessions/wk - I forget the exact name, but basically this comes after physics200 which was fluid dynamics (momentum, velocity, acceleration, drag(which is a ****), angular velocity/acceleration/momentum, torque, and systems of variable mass) and this one is supposed to cover like electromagnetism and optics n' stuff.

    mat250 - 2 90minute sessions/wk - "Linear Algebra" - So far this seems to just be matrix manipulation which has me wondering why integral calculus was a prerequisite for it.

    gam250 - 2 120minute sessions/wk - "Projects Class" - this one isn't so much of a class as it is a lab. We take this class and have to produce a fully functioning game over the course of a year with a group of poeple.

    I did however make a little snafoo tho, accidentally counted my projects class twice when I made the initial count of 26 hours a week, in reality it is 22
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  • SaltySalty Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 6970Members
    edited January 2003
    My bad i thought you were in hs <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

    I thought labs count as 1 credit hr for every 1. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    I make no claims as to what my actual credit hours are since I still don't fully understand what those are nor do I desire to in the near future.

    technically the gam250 class has about 50% lecture time in it, but only 1 piece of homework (the project itself)
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    no matter how much you want to believe otherwise, highschool = easy, plain and simple
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  • FlatlineUTDFlatlineUTD Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7695Members
    High school was actually harder than college has been so far. I took all AP (honors, if you don't know about AP) in high school. I'm not saying high school was hard, but it wasn't incredibly easy.

    College has been about the same amount of work as I had in HS, but you have <b>so much more time</b> to work on it.
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  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    edited January 2003
    I remember taking AP Honors English / AP U.S. History (single 2 hour class of fun) along with business law and AP Computer Programming along with spanish (you got me on languages, I didn't care about mine) , along with a couple other B.S. waste-of-time classes such as gym, health, and creative writing, and all I can say is that it was all a breeze compared to DigiPen.

    I mean, hell, I didn't even have to do homework on weekdays in H.S. , Worst case scenario was that I had to sacrifice my sunday.

    Now my standards have flipped around a bit to the point that if I *only* have to spend all of sunday on homework then it's a relatively easy week.
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  • FamFam Diaper-Wearing Dog On A Ball Join Date: 2002-02-17 Member: 222Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I am taking a 10-credit-per-module ADS, CAR, MCS and DAD for a BSC HONS in CS at UOY, NY, UK.
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